Police in Tehran have turned 29 people over to the judicial authorities for taking part in a growing campaign against forced hijab, the hardline Tasnim news agency reported on February 1, 2018. The detainees’ names ...
Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case of imprisoned Iranian-American gallery owners Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin ...
A few weeks after major protests erupted across Iran in December 2017, the majority of the country's lawmakers signed a letter calling for a state ban on foreign social media apps to drive Iranians towards state-approved domestic alternatives. Their main ...
More than a month after thousands of people were arrested in Iran after weeklong protests erupted across the country beginning in December 2017, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) were allowed to ...
Iranian women protest their country’s hijab law by waving their headscarves in public. Several women protested ...
In a letter written under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has warned Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to heed the signs of ...
Update: The couple's sentence was later reduced to 15 years for Karan Vafadari and 10 years for Afarin Nayssari. In a letter from Evin Prison obtained by the Center ...
Judge Ahmadzadeh Has Sentenced 16 Christians to Prison In Less Than A Year Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, who formerly led Iran’s Assyrian Pentecostal Church, has been sentenced ...
Iranian-Kurdish political activist Ramin Hossein Panahi will appeal the death sentence he was issued on January 25, 2018, by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, the capital ...
Iranian Officials have imposed travel restrictions on one of the ...
Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee were beaten by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran’s Evin Prison and transferred ...
Credible Sources Report That Detainees Told to Request Pills to Speed Up Release More than 150 people detained in the protests that broke out in ...
Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing charges that are punishable by death, the Center ...
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has illegally detained or summoned close relatives of at least three activists from northwestern Iran since anti-government protests erupted in the region in late ...
“They Buried Him Like He Was a Criminal” Hassan Shahin Tarkashvand, a 24-year-old man from the city of Karaj, has been identified as another victim of the state-repressed protests in Iran ...
Mokhtar Zarei Two young men who were killed by security forces in the city of Sanandaj in Iran’s Kurdistan Province in early January 2018 were unarmed despite ...
In the wake of a massive influx of detainees following protests in several Iranian cities at the end of 2017, more than 150 lawyers have called on Judiciary Chief Sadegh ...
A lawyer representing the families of two detainees who died in custody in Iran after being arrested during protests that erupted across the ...
Iranian officials have accused two Iranian protesters who died in custody of committing suicide and of being drug addicts. But a prominent human rights lawyer and a reformist MP from Tehran have stated that there's much more to ...
Branch 33 of the Supreme Court in Iran is reviewing the death sentence issued to Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born academic and Swedish resident accused ...
Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families To Refuse Media Interviews Kianoosh Zandi, 24, has been named the second victim in a shooting case involving conflicting accounts over how and why two young men ...
A man’s hand was amputated with a guillotine on January 17, 2018, in Central Prison in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, according to a local daily newspaper. “After the sentence was ...
Ten members of a persecuted Sufi order in Iran were injured and three others arrested in the city of Kowar, Fars Province after police attacked their rally in support of detained fellow devotees on January 14, 2018. Kasra Nouri, a ...
Vahid Heydari (right) and Sina Ghanbari were killed in the detention center Detainees arrested during the ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry coerced the father of a dead protester into claiming in front of a camera that his son was killed during an armed confrontation with security forces, the ...